Re: [Bug-wget] wget2 fails to build if spaces in directory path

[Tim Rühsen]

On 06/27/2017 09:49 AM, Avinash Sonawane wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 26, 2017 at 10:46 PM, Akash Rawal <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> We use absolute paths because relative paths break tests when build
>> tree is separate from source tree.
> 
> Thank you! Didn't know about VPATH builds before and I just loved the idea!
> 
>> The reason the make check fails is that test program cd's to a
>> subdirectory to run tests. After changing directory, the
>> relative path is no longer correct. To further complicate the issue,
>> srcdir and top_srcdir are not guaranteed to be relative paths.
> 
> Oh! Then, may be it's better to not build wget2 at a location with
> space characters in it's path as make doesn't handle well the paths
> with space characters in it. And that's not a wget2 issue. ;)

Yes, it looks like an upstream wontfix.

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-automake/2007-10/msg00005.html

I made some tests and got automake work correctly (including double
escaping, urg). But then I had obscure follow-up issues with libtool
which I couldn't figure out easily.

With Best Regards, Tim

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